Just like great duos Kirk and Spock, Frodo and Sam, or Woody and Buzz, the miniStack and the Mac mini have been the perfect pair since 2005. Now featuring Storage and Thunderbolt Xpansion, the miniStack STX continues its award-winning legacy as the best sidekick a Mac mini can have.
With a universal SATA HDD/SSD bay AND an NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD slot, you can expand your mini's storage capacity to gigantic proportions. Three Thunderbolt (USB-C) ports enable you to connect to millions of Thunderbolt, USB, and future USB4 drives, displays, A/V mixers, cameras, tablets, and desktop accessories like a keyboard, card reader, or mouse. The possibilities of how you can use your Mac mini is now only limited to your imagination.
While sized identical to the Mac mini, the miniStack STX is a sleek, complementary companion for MacBook and PC notebook and desktop machines, iPads, and Chromebooks as well. While highly powerful, these machines are often limited in the number and variety of ports they offer. The miniStack STX solves that expansion limitation with a new world of increased connectivity and storage capacity.
Just like superheroes have an alter ego, so too does the miniStack STX. The universal SATA drive bay holds a hard disk drive or SSD for upstanding data storage performance with big capacity. When you need to support bandwidth-intensive operations, the NVMe M.2 SSD slot reveals miniStack STX's ferocious power. NVMe was designed to deliver the speed potential of modern flash drive technology by using a direct path to a computer's processor over PCIe. As a result, you can enjoy near instant access performance with the miniStack STX.
With multiple drive configurations available, you can experience up to 770MB/s of real-world data transfer speed. Move 5GB of GoPro footage in about 6 seconds. Transfer 1000's of photos of that priceless event in mere seconds. Use the SATA drive for Time Machine or File History backups while working off the NVMe drive. With heavyweight performance like this, the miniStack STX is great for multi-stream compressed 4K video editing, photography, audio, virtual machines, and everyday data tasks.
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General Information | |
Manufacturer | Other World Computing |
Manufacturer Part Number | OWCT4MS9H20N08 |
Manufacturer Website Address | https://www.owc.com/ |
Brand Name | OWC |
Product Line | miniStack STX |
Product Name | miniStack STX Storage Solution |
Packaged Quantity | 1 |
Product Type | Drive Enclosure |
Technical Information | |
Number of Hard Drives Supported | 1 |
Number of Hard Drives Installed | 1 |
Total Hard Drive Capacity Installed | 20 TB |
Number of Solid State Drive Supported | 1 |
Number of Solid State Drive Installed | 1 |
Total Solid State Drive Capacity Installed | 8 TB |
Maximum Data Transfer Rate | 40 Gbit/s |
Controllers | |
Software RAID Supported | Yes |
I/O Expansions | |
Number of Total Expansion Bays | 1 |
Number of 2.5"/3.5" Bays | 1 |
Hot Swappable Bays | Yes |
Network & Communication | |
Wireless LAN | No |
Interfaces/Ports | |
Drive Interface | Serial ATA |
Drive Interface | PCI Express NVMe 4.0 |
Host Interface | Thunderbolt 4 |
Number of Thunderbolt 4 Ports | 5 |
Software | |
Operating System Supported | Android 11.x |
Operating System Supported | macOS Mojave 10.14.6 |
Operating System Supported | Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave |
Operating System Supported | macOS Sequoia 15.x |
Operating System Supported | Mac OS X 12.x Monterey |
Operating System Supported | Android 15.x |
Operating System Supported | Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina |
Operating System Supported | iPadOS 17 |
Operating System Supported | iPadOS 18 |
Operating System Supported | Windows 10 |
Operating System Supported | ChromeOS |
Operating System Supported | iPadOS 14 |
Operating System Supported | iPadOS 15 |
Operating System Supported | iPadOS 13 |
Operating System Supported | iPadOS 16 |
Operating System Supported | Mac OS X 14.x Sonoma |
Operating System Supported | Linux |
Operating System Supported | Android |
Operating System Supported | Mac OS X 13.x Ventura |
Operating System Supported | Android 14.x |
Operating System Supported | Android 13.x |
Operating System Supported | Windows Server 2022 |
Operating System Supported | macOS 11.1 |
Operating System Supported | Android 12.x |
Operating System Supported | Windows 11 |
Operating System Supported | Mac OS X 11.x Big Sur |
Operating System Supported | Windows 10 x64 |
Operating System Supported | Windows Server 2019 |
Physical Characteristics | |
Color Family | Black |
Product Color | Matte Black |
Product Color | Black |
Product Material | Aluminum |
Cooling Fan | Yes |
Height | 1.5" |
Width | 7.8" |
Depth | 7.8" |
Weight (Approximate) | 3.63 lb |
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Warranty | |
Limited Warranty | 3 Year |